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Vertical farm startup AeroFarms is about to open a farm with the potential to harvest 2 million pounds of fresh, leafy greens a year, without any soil, pesticides, or sunlight. Crops sit on ...

A farm grown vertically indoors in the U.S. aims to use 90 percent less water, 97 percent less land and no pesticides while producing more than 4 million pounds of strawberries a year. The ...

All of this happens inside a 69,000-square-foot warehouse in Newark, New Jersey. When AeroFarms officially starts production in September 2016, it will become the world's largest vertical farm.